nimebe wrote:Tom - thank you for the additional guidance. It's encouraging to me to see the community have these discussions because this is the only way we'll find a solution that will work.
Several programs have been discussed on this forum, including one of Tom's, which store sensitive data on a locally run machine. Another is the Emergency Preparedness project. As far as I know these projects are still active.
This makes me think that a system that stored Home Teaching assignments locally and presented that information in a variety of ways would be fine. The only difference I see between me copy/pasting this information into an e-mail and clicking send and using a program to automate it is that the amount of time the task takes would be dramatically cut.
If the church decides that sending information exported from MLS is a security risk, they will ask us not to do so, we'll comply, and we'll look for another solution. I'm game.
nimebe: If you could think of a way to keep the e-mails in a standardized format, you could auto-process the returned e-mails. That might be a challenge, but you could probably notify the Presidency member when it encounters an e-mail that it doesn't know what to do with and allow them to manually handle it.
I'd love to help, but I'm now gunshy regarding investing any more of my time on any project that isn't 100% endorsed by the Church.
Brad O.